This reporting misrepresents what Fauci said. He did not use anecdotal to imply one way or the other that the treatment works.
He specifically called out the tension between treating empirically in times of need versus the slower process of establishing scientific evidence.
His words on this topic seemed reasonable, practical, and comprehensive. It is damaging to our collective discussion for them to get distorted in this way.
it poses an interesting problem doesn't it? How do we disseminate neutral, calm, accurate and above all boring information over the highly caffeinated, sugar rich and horribly stereotyped mainstream broadcasts...?
How do we make people pay more attention to the sensible reality and less to the irrational attention getting noise?
People just have to politicize everything these days. Since Trump advocated for it, opposers need to find every way to twist things to suggest it doesn't work, and supporters need to do the same in reverse.
"X is 100% effective" from a lawyer and ex-mayor who is currently calling everyone who doesn't agree with him as being from the "demented left", without any scientific proof of the effectiveness of Hydroxyquinolone against Covid-19, is a false claim, no matter how you spin it. If it were 100% effective, we'd have evidence of that and doctors celebrating.
His is not a reasonable voice in this matter that is being drowned.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadHe specifically called out the tension between treating empirically in times of need versus the slower process of establishing scientific evidence.
His words on this topic seemed reasonable, practical, and comprehensive. It is damaging to our collective discussion for them to get distorted in this way.
How do we make people pay more attention to the sensible reality and less to the irrational attention getting noise?
His is not a reasonable voice in this matter that is being drowned.